Example sentences for: banished

How can you use “banished” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By 1988 the editors of Dorland's 28th edition had deleted three eponymous entries for hyperthyroidism, retaining Graves but now as Graves disease , the second s and its possessive apostrophe banished.

  • A pious Muslim, puritanical in both clothes and personal tastes, he banished music from the court and burned the portraits of princes as breaches of the Islamic taboo on graven images.

  • When Imogen rhapsodizes on the immensity of her love for her banished husband she insists it is beyond beyond . For many years I have been captivated by that phrase, created by the doubling of a fairly ordinary preposition/noun, now magically employed in just that relationship.

  • The major surprise of Degas' photographs is that the theatricality and staginess so resolutely banished from his paintings flooded into his photographs.

  • They had come to meet a fellow officer, Francisco Franco, whom the government had banished to the Canaries for subversive plotting.


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